# Doing A Release

To run a PyNaCl release follow these steps:

- Update the version number in `src/nacl/__init__.py`.

- Update `README.rst` changelog section with the date of the release.

- Send a pull request with these items and wait for it to be merged.

- Run `python release.py release {version}`

Once the release script completes you can verify that the sdist and wheels are present on PyPI and then send a new PR to bump the version to the next major version (e.g. `1.2.0.dev1`).